Cindy's Wolf Window has been completed and she's also sent us a picture of the window installed. She certainly finished this off in record speed and the recipients of the window absolutely love it.
Here's a peek at the window as installed from outside. Forgive the reflections-- they're hard to avoid when taking pictures on a sunny day.
Kandise soldered up her Sunset and Mountains Window and then finished it off by then washing, coloring, washing and waxing it. As you can see her colors work with each other spectacularly and that green path through the mountains really brings it to life.
Let made two windows this week the first of which is this stunning Tulip Panel that actually uses the same glass for it's border as the window above. There's a slight color difference because Let's window was taken in daylight while the Sunset window was taken at night in fluorescent lighting. This Tulip Window represents the glass much more accurately.
Let's second project has a very unique style about it. If you love symmetry, as I do, this will certainly appeal to you. As I pointed out two weeks ago she's changed the pattern so that the center section has 'star bevels' rather than round jewels or nuggets. Don't just scroll on by without admiring Let's perfectly straight lines throughout that beveled center portion of her window because that is not easy to accomplish without determination.
Nettie put the finishing touches on her Wedding Box and its simplicity is what gives this gift it's real beauty. I guess it's Wedding season because you're going to see another Wedding box a little further on down in this post and interestingly enough Nettie will begin making a second box next week along with another student!
Betty completed four Wire Stemmed Daisy Suncatcher as well as a Brass Key Dragonfly. She originally left the lead silver on the Key project but then colored it copper to better match the brass color of the actual key that the wings were soldered onto. The end result was so much better as you can see below.
Keri's last two Pink Princess Philodendron Leaves have been completely completed(!) and she is officially taking a break from making these. You'll see what's next in store for her a little further on down.
Susan R's Birds on a Branch are taking shape as the first of her four Birds has been cut. She's certainly impressed other students with her pattern because we already have two other people who want to make this proving that Susan certainly has great taste!
I knew I was going to do this. I took three pictures of Paula's newest project and trashed the one that I wrote the name of the project on. So I went on a digital dumpster dive and found that this window is based on The Girl With The Pearl Earring. It may be hard to see but that pearl earring is all picked out and it's looking just like a pearl.
So then, Keri not only finished off her pair of 3D Leaves, she also picked out a Flower Hand Mirror Pattern that we've never seen before. She not only cut it all out in one night but also managed to grind it all as well! For a relatively new student she sure is impressing people.
This Iris Window that Barbara has begun is of her own design. She's not entirely happy with the leaves but she is going to grind and tack the flowers together and then use her drawing as inspiration for a new assortment of leaves.
Martha has the majority of the hard work done for her Wedding Box. The G will form a side panel that rest along side the right side of the invitation to form a larger box top.
Julie has begun grinding the bottom quarter of her Heron Window so she can tack it together before cutting out the next section which will include the Irises. This will prevent any of the bottom pieces from sliding around as she's working on the most detailed part of her window.
Lorrie's Humming Birds and Flowers are all cut and ground leaving her with just the background left to cut which she has already begun working on (viewable in the lower right corner). It's more than a fair assumption to say that this will be finished before you know it.
Jan is only two small pieces away from soldering this Virgin Mary suncatcher. It's looking really good and she's even been working on it while at home!
June has her Multi-colored Cat Window all soldered and looking great. The only thing left to do is to wash and color this so we will definitely see this completed next week.
Sheri's Scissor Tailed Flycatcher is so close to being completely ground. I have no doubt that she'll foiling glass next week.
Linda L has taken her time with her Mickey and Minnie Window to achieve a perfect repeating and overlapping heart background. That may sound like an oxymoron but the truth is that even though she took her time with this she was still able to finish the cutting and grinding with a thoroughly impressive amount of speed. She's got it!
With her missing piece of vine cut and all of her other pieces of glass ground Linda F will next be cutting out her background glass. The timing is perfect for this because her glass just arrived! And isn't this looking absolutely lovely?!
Lara's only got about three or four more Honeycombs left to solder and then she'll be working on a Bee to accent all of these Honeycombs.
MiMi is soldering away on her Lamp and will be for the next few weeks. She really has the hang of this and when you look closely you can easily see where she has a bead on the lamp and what is yet to be beaded. We lifted this up after class was over and all I can say is that it is already rock solid!
Cheryl's Mr. Bingle window is all soldered and just needs some channel attached and some touching up. She's already decided on her next project which we will reveal when she comes back in along with the finished picture of Mr. Bingle.
Mary Grace got her window all set to be soldered in absentia as all of the glass for her Spine Window has officially been cut and ground. Look to see this completed next week for sure.
Then you'll see that I didn't get a picture of what Bee was working on. I know it involved tracing out a new pattern but I can't remember what it was to save my life!
Lastly, Judy has the head of her Dog Window all cut and is now grinding it. I'd love to show a picture of it but it needs to be a surprise.
Ta-ta for now!
Paul
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